If you look at the average menu of a resident of Russia, and maybe even wider, it turns out that the main product is potatoes. In all kinds. Most often, of course, fried potatoes, boiled and mashed potatoes.
At the same time, fried potatoes, so beloved by everyone, are difficult to attribute to dietary products. Vitamins are not preserved during such processing, but fat is added during frying, and at its worst, it is superheated.
What do dieticians recommend to us in return? You will be surprised, perhaps, but - baked potatoes. Of course, the most dietary option is a potato baked in a peel. But there is still a variety of options that are tasty, satisfying, and healthy.
This, for example, potatoes with meat in the oven. Choose options:
Baked potatoes with meat in the oven under a crust of cheese.
The dish, simple in preparation, is a casserole of sliced potatoes, minced meat and vegetables in layers. First, put the minced meat in a baking sheet, greased (ideally from meat, marinated in soy sauce for half an hour). We lay a layer of vegetables on the meat. It can be grated carrots, onions, dill and some mayonnaise for a mild flavor. Next comes the potatoes with garlic and salt. Top layer - grated cheese, set 10-15 minutes before cooked. The cooking time for such a culinary delight is about forty minutes.
As an experiment, we can remove a layer of meat from the recipe and diversify the vegetable filling. Then we get a new option: potatoes with vegetables in the oven.
Did mushrooms happen to be on hand? And they can be used in business. Then we get another dish on the same topic - potatoes with mushrooms in the oven.
You can also diversify the dish - and make potatoes with mushrooms in the oven with sour cream. Then the potatoes are cut larger - into about four parts, laid out in a baking sheet covered with foil. We put champignons, sour cream, champignons and spices there. We cover the dish with foil on top - and bake until cooked.
Potatoes with meat in the oven can also be a simple potato casserole. Then we just cook mashed potatoes, hot put the first layer on a baking sheet, lay with minced meat with spices and cover with a second layer of mashed potatoes. The casserole is put in the oven for about half an hour.
Here we can replace the minced meat, for example, with frozen vegetables - and we will get absolutely diet potatoes with vegetables in the oven.
But this is not all that can be found on the topic of potatoes and ovens.
Potatoes with meat in the oven do not have to be something single and indivisible. Great combination of a good piece of pork or lamb with potatoes. We make a restaurant-quality dish easily and naturally.
Potatoes with meat in the oven. The meat, washed and peeled, sprinkle with salt and spices and bake until half cooked. Peel the potatoes and cut them into quarters. Salt to taste, sprinkle with red pepper and spices, add a little olive oil and mix the ingredients well (shake in a bowl until the potatoes take on all the spices). Put the potatoes in a deep pan. Put cooked meat on top, cut into portions. Cover with foil (or, who loves, put in a baking sleeve) and put in the oven for another 30-40 minutes. The process is long, however, most of the time the oven works for us. But the result exceeds all expectations! By the way, if we use poultry meat, a long cooking baking is not required. Chicken breasts or legs in 40 minutes will reach readiness along with potatoes.
Here are the many different healthy dishes we can find only on the theme of potatoes and the oven. But this is only the beginning! Each culinary specialist can independently invent a dish, diversifying his menu! Experiment with healthy food, you will like it! Enjoy your meal!